5 Boring Ways to Become More Creative
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Creative people are anything but boring, but the creative process itself involves a lot of mundane work and boring consistency.
C reativity and crazy. They go together like ginger and beer, aged cheese and fine wine, impressionist painters and lead poisoning. One can hardly think of one without the other. Almost by definition, creativity is the opposite of boring. If something is creative, it’s because it triggers some degree of surprise or excitement within us—it reconfigures existence in ways we could not have previously imagined. Creative people are not boring. Creative work is not boring. Therefore, we assume that the secret to creative success must not be boring. I had a friend in college who wanted to be a famous
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